Courses

Constitutional Law I& II;Copyrights; Law and Religion.

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Biography

Prof. Jamar earned his JD from Hamline University School of Law in 1979 and his LLM in International and Comparative Law from Georgetown University Law Center in 1994. He joined the Howard University School of Law faculty as the director of the Legal Reasoning, Research and Writing Program in 1990, a position he held until 2002. He taught at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota and the University of Baltimore School of Law in Baltimore, Maryland before coming to Howard.

At Howard Prof. Jamar has taught a variety of courses including International Law of Human Rights, Constitutional Law I & II, the International Moot Court Team course, Copyrights, Introduction to Intellectual Property, LRRW I & II, Drafting, UCC, Contracts, Computer Law, Law and Religion.

Prof. Jamar is the Associate Director of the Institute of Intellectual Property and Social Justice at Howard (IIPSJ). IIPSJ was created by Prof. Mtima and Prof. Jamar in 2002 to address the relationship between intellectual property and social justice. IIPSJ at Howard sponsors relevant scholarship, involves HUSL students in IP courses and issues, designs the IP curriculum, sponsors student internships in IP law practice, and provides CLE instruction in IP to practicing lawyers. Prof. Lateef Mtima is the IIPSJ Director.

Prof. Jamar’s scholarly work is wide ranging. In August 2002 he presented a paper on the international human right of freedom of religion at an Oxford Round Table Conference at Oxford University. He has also published articles and done other scholarship on comparative law and intellectual property, legal rhetoric, work related to Brown@50, IP and social justice, and various human rights topics.

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updated: November 27, 2012